Sentence examples for elaborate frame from inspiring English sources

Afro-mysticism, jazz ballads, dance rhythms with tablas -- it's all an elaborate frame for his huge sound.

Afro-mysticism, jazz ballads, dance rhythms with tablas -- it's all an elaborate frame for his massive sound.

Some were lucky enough to receive a print in an elaborate frame hand-painted by his neighbour, Checkna Touré.

He died in 1912, and fell so out of fashion that in the 1960s The Finding of Moses was cut out and rolled up when a gallery could only find a buyer for the elaborate frame.

This is the sturdy, elaborate frame for the wispy tale of What-the-Dickens, a tooth fairy hatched alone, by mistake, in a discarded tuna can, far from his fairy community.

They had gone to the Louvre and to the Jeu de Paume and on the last day of the trip he had bought her a little watercolor of Venice she kept admiring, in a rather elaborate frame that probably accounted for the gouache's high price — it was a gouache, not a watercolor, as she always corrected him.

The commission reported almost a year ago that Ms. Durante had been the innocent victim of an elaborate frame-up.

Using knowledge he acquired partly from watching crime dramas like "C.S.I.," the private detective, Jerry Ramrattan, 39, orchestrated what prosecutors in Queens called one of the most elaborate frame-ups in recent history.

When Ms. Sumasar refused to drop rape charges against him, prosecutors say, Mr. Ramrattan, a former private detective, concocted an elaborate frame-up straight out of a "Law & Order" episode.

Jennifer Paulson Lee has created some slick dance moments in a musical that doesn't offer many opportunities for choreography — it's Ron Piretti, the fight director, who gets the cast moving, as assorted low-lifes take on Stone in the elaborate frame-up that serves as the plot of Stine's novel-cum-screenplay.

On Wednesday, as Mr. Ramrattan's trial on charges including rape, perjury and conspiracy began at State Supreme Court in Queens, prosecutors told the jury that Ms. Sumasar had been right all along, the victim of what Frank DeGaetano, an assistant district attorney, characterized as one of the most elaborate frame-ups in recent history.